W. P. Kinsella Quotes

Found a good voice and took advantage of it. Each of my specialties was like a prospector discovering a vein of gold. I worked each until the vein was exhausted.

Syzygy, inexorable, pancreatic, phantasmagoria - anyone who can use those four words in one sentence will never have to do manual labor.

[Mid-list writers are now] less greed on the part of both publishers and chain booksellers. It is easier for them to publish and sell only blockbusters and leave the real work to small presses.

My intuition told me that it was the grass that was important.Now it glows parrot-green, cool as mint, soft as moss, lying there like a cashmere blanket.

After the strike, I lost interest. In reality, neither players nor owners care in the least about the fans. The greed of both factions has destroyed baseball's credibility, at least for the present.

The Great Gatsby, the finest novel ever written.

I am an old-fashioned storyteller. I try to make people laugh and cry. A fiction writer's duty is to entertain. If you can sneak in something profound or symbolic, so much the better.

He bats like a lightning rod.

Other people get into occupations by accident or design; but writers are born. I could work at selling motels, or slopping hogs, for fifty years, but if someone asked my occupation, I'd say writer, even if I'd never sold a word. Writers write. Other people talk.

Hardly anybody recognizes the most significant moments of their life at the time they happen.

At one time I'd been to every park except Baltimore and Houston, but can't even keep track of who plays where these days.

[I had ] uneventful, though isolated childhood. Good, kind, stable parents.

I've played [Scrabble] tournaments for about 20 years. My daughter, Erin, who lives with me, also travels to tournaments. While I'm not a top division player, I've won a number of tournaments.

I became exclusively an American League fan when they instituted the DH rule, and will remain so until the National League moves out of the dark ages.

Read! Read! Read! And then read some more. When you find something that thrills you, take it apart paragraph by paragraph, line by line, word by word, to see what made it so wonderful. Then use those tricks next time you write.

Use your imagination. Trust me, your lives are not interesting. Don't write them down.

Baseball games are like snowflakes and fingerprints, no two are ever alike.

The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like birdsong to the baseball starved.

If you build it, he will come.

1946, if my memory is correct. Harry "The Cat" Brecheen went against the Red Sox in Game 7. I stayed home to listen, practically had my head inside the radio.

I was lucky to get one good adaptation. Field of Dreams the Musical is lurking in the wings. Hope it will provide my daughters with a ton of money someday.

Basketball is the worst sport. They need to raise the basket at least two feet.

My main income came from failed movie and TV options.

Yogi Berra, Bill Lee, they were irreverent, poked fun at the stodgy owners and managers.

In the 70s and 80s, I made a good living. Have managed my funds carefully, will never have to go out and cadge quarters from the tourists.

Until Color TV came along, BW TV was too muddy to be enjoyable.

Growing up is a ritual, more deadly than religion, more complicated than baseball, for there seem to be no rules. Everything is experienced for the first time.

I think it is worse [in 2015] for a mid-list author such as myself. You either have to sell like Stephen King or go with the small presses where there is no money. I was lucky to have been in the right place and time for many years.

Baseball is the most perfect of games, solid, true, pure and precious as diamonds. If only life were so simple. Within the baselines anything can happen. Tides can reverse; oceans can open. That's why they say, "the game is never over until the last man is out." Colors can change, lives can alter, anything is possible in this gentle, flawless, loving game.

[I] Played a little softball, but there was nowhere on the field it was safe for me to be.

It is the same game that Moonlight Graham played in 1905. It is a living part of history, like calico dresses, stone crockery, and threshing crews eating at outdoor tables. It continually reminds us of what was, like an Indian-head penny in a handful of new coins.

Any game becomes important when you know and love the players.

My dad talked a good game. [I'm as a] child got only the World Series on the radio.

Have never been a minor league fan.

Someone once described the pitching of a no-hit game as like catching lighting in a bottle.

It is hard to compare the eras, but Joe Jackson and Ty Cobb from the past, Sandy Koufax and Roger Clements from the present.

Discovered W. Somerset Maugham in about 5th grade. Didn't understand the plots, but loved the descriptions.

Heroes don't need to talk about what they did.

Curt Flood, of course, was in a class by himself, a true hero.

I lost my wife Barbara to cancer few years ago. I would give whatever time I have left to spend one more day with her.

I'm a big fan of curling, follow all the major world events. Watch all four Tennis majors.